The Role
Station Manager
Salary range £53,773 - £59,563 per annum
Closing date: Monday 03 June 2019 at 4pm
London Fire Brigade is currently recruiting to the role of Station Manager and potential vacancies are available in all departments. We are keen to hear from anyone with the ability to do this job to help us achieve a workforce as diverse as the communities that we serve.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals and have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for this role you must be a competent Watch Manager who has demonstrated competence against the requirements of the watch manager role map in an operational post. Applicants are also required to hold a full UK manual driving licence. External candidates will also need to be serving as a whole time officer in a local government brigade.
Assessment Overview
Please note that the assessment process is sequential – therefore each stage must be passed in order to progress.
Stage 1: A knowledge test, which will be based on the attached bibliography, is scheduled to be held in mid June 2019. You are advised to start preparing for your knowledge test straight away. External candidates who require access to the policy notes should email assessmentcentre@london-fire.gov.uk to request copies. Internal candidates can find all policies on Hotwire. Candidates who pass the knowledge test will then have their application shortlisted. If successful at shortlist, candidates will be invited to Stage 2 of the process.
Stage 2: Successful candidates from stage 1 will be invited to an assessment development centre consisting of a range of role related exercises; a structured interview, a role play exercise and written exercise, scheduled to be held in early July 2019.
Stage 3: An Incident Command Exercise, is scheduled to be held in August 2019 for those successful at Stage 2.
Stage 4: All appointable candidates after Stage 3 will be invited to express up to 2 preferences for vacant Station Manager posts, and will then be invited to informal interviews with the relevant Heads of Service. Informal interviews will be scored and will determine who is appointed to the vacant posts. Candidates not appointed to a vacant post in the Stage 4 process will form a panel for appointments to subsequent Station Manager vacancies. You will remain on the panel until you are promoted regardless of any future rounds.
Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment dates, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements. Please state all your unavailable dates in your application form and keep us informed throughout the assessment process of any further unavailability you may have.
Additional Information
To apply please complete the online application form by 4pm on 03 June 2019, including the expression of interest form. Please follow the application guidance in the attachments and allow time for yourself and line management to complete and submit the application form prior to the closing date, as late or un-submitted applications will not be accepted.
Internal applicants should complete parts 1, 2 and 3 of the expression of interest form (parts 2 and 3 should be completed by your line management). External candidates are required to complete part 1 of the expression of interest form only.
Please upload the completed expression of interest form in the Other Attachments section of the application form.
For external applicants, in line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed for the successful person, which will include a basic criminal records check. The successful person will be required to declare any convictions for offences which are not spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a Disclosure Scotland Basic Disclosure will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed. Further information about the BPSS and the criminal records check is provided on the vacancies page of Hotwire and in Policy No 726 - LFB policy on criminal records checks.
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